Imagine sitting in your car or standing in the train and virtually cruising the Martian atmosphere. This Interstellar-esque experience is now available on your smartphone in the form of an app called NASA.

Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading, with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks in humans.

Botox, a potent neurotoxin which is used to paralyse nerves to smooth out wrinkles and treat several illnesses, can reach the brain without causing side effects, which shows its use is safe, Australian researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Saturday’s will be the shortest lunar eclipse of the century – it is estimated to last for about 4 minutes 43 seconds -- when the moon just skims along towards the outer edge of the umbral shadow of the Earth.

Nasa has asked scientists to consider ways that a Europa mission could search for evidence of alien life in the plumes of water vapour that apparently blast into space from Europa's south polar region.